Wash wringer



June 19, 1929. 4,459,444

T. DOMOTC WAS H WRINGER Filed June 29. 1921 27 ik 29 j?" 29---? 2 -f @hagf BM; AhlmllllllllllllllllllllllllllmllilllllllllHIIIIIXIIIHIllllllllllllllllllmllllfllllllllllIIIlIIIilllmllllllmmllflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllIILll block of resilient material is interposed between the beam23A and the bar 26, as ndicated at 30. rlhis block cooperates with theother resilient members in supplying a yield-` .able pressure to theupper roll 20.

\of substantially smooth hard rubber, as indicated at 34. The outerlayer of rubber will, ofcourse, be. somewhat pliable, as in the case ofthe present wringer rolls with the backing of sponge rubber it will bepossible for the rollers to adapt themselves to minute irregularitiesand inequalities in the thicknesses of the articles passed .between therolls in slich a way as to thoroughly exclude the water therefrom and toprevent the Water from passing between the rolls with the goods.

. In order that the wringer may be used from either side of a tub, or torun clothes into or out of a tub, a reversible guide board 35 isprovided. This guide board is fitted with trunnions 36 at its ends,which trun-v nions are supported by spring clips 37. One pair of thesespring clips is mounted upon the opposite faces of the uprights 11 and12, thus making it possible to instantly remove the drain board from oneside of the wringer and install it upon the opposite side.

The means for clamping the wringer to a tub or other support consists oflates 38 which are screwed to the faces o the uprights 11 and 12. Theseplates are formed integral with arms 39 extending outwardly anddownwardly. The ends of these arms are formed with threaded bosses 40through which clamping screws 41 are fitted. The outer ends of thesescrews are formed with wings Li2 by which they may be rotated, whiletheir inner ends are formed with circular pressure discs i3 over theface of which a pad of rubber 4A- is secured. rlhis rubber padco-o-perates with a pad of rubber l5 carried by the plates 38.

in operation of the present invention the wringer is mounted upon adesired support and thereafter fixed in position by the clamp screwsLil. These screws, of course.l simultaneously draw the clamping pads 4&5against one side of the tub, or other support, while the pads all arepressed against the opposite side, thus firmly holding the frame in adesired position. The adjusting screw 28 may then be forced down tocreate pressure upon the roll 20. 1When the crank i8 is operated theroll 15 will be rotated and. the goods may be forced between the rolls15 and 20.

A* applied and at the same time conform -to them inname Due to thestructure of the rolls, as disclosed in Fig. a, the outer surfaces ofthe rollers will conform to the sectional contour. of the materialpassing between the rolls and will force the moisture from the material.At this time, the meeting surfaces of the rolls on each side of thematerial will be brought together, thus preventin the water from passingaround the sides o the goods being fed through the wringer. ln the eventthat an excessively large piece of goods is fed through the wringer, orthat the goods are not properly distributed over the base of the lowerroll, the resilient members 25 and the small resilient members 29 willbe compressed to permit yielding of the upper roll in addition to theamount of compression produced along the rolls themselves.

The drain board 35 may, of course, be to the side of the wringer fromwhich the Wet material is being fed'. When the balls 25 becomedistorted, they may be forced along the opening between the bar 26 andthe beam 23 until they are properly seated, within corrugations suitablefor their accommodation.

llt will thus be seen that the invention here disclosed is decidedlysimple in its construction, providing inexpensive and readilyreplaceable means for producing pressure and a desired resiliency of thewringer, and that the Wringer rolls are so constructed as to insure thata maximum and even extraction of water will be made from the materialpassed therebetween, and to uniformly dry the clothes and in someinstances to uniformly distribute starch therethrough,

While l havel shown the preferred form of my invention, it is to beunderstood that various changes may be made by those skilled in the artwithout departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what ll claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent is:

1. A wash wringer comprising a frame; a relatively fixed, wringer roll'rotatably supported thereby; a movable wringer roll disposed above saidfixed roll; a pressure beam acting against the trunnions of said movableroll; a transversely extending bar parallel to said beam; resilientmeans inter-- posed between the bar and beam; an ad justable pressurescrew carried by the frame 'and acting against the center of sai-d barto force it downwardly; said pressure beam and parallel bar being formedwith recesses ofdifferent sizes along their adacent faces foraccommodating the resilient means.

2. A wash wringer comprising a frame; a relatively .fixed rollerrotatably supported by said frame; a relatively movable roller rotatablysupported by the frame; a pressure beam slidably supported by the frameand extending parallel to the rollers; means one disposed in any pair ofrecesses at each at the ends thereof for imparting pressure to thetrunnions of the movable rollers; a pressure bar slidably supported bythe frame and disposed above the beam, said bar and beam having adjacentconverging faces extending from their ends and terminating near thecenters thereof; a resilient block disposed between the center portionsof the adjacent -faces of said bar and beam; pairs of recesses beingformed along the converging faces of said members, resilient balls,

end of the beam and bar; a cross beam forming a part of the frame; andan adjusting lo screw carried at the center of said cross beam andadapted to exert pressure uponA the bar.

3. A wash wringer comprising a frame; a relatively fixed rollerrotatably supported by said frame; a relatively movable roller rotatablysupported by the frame; a pressure beam slidably supported by the lframeand extending parallel to the rollers; means at the ends thereof forimparting pressure to the trunnions of the movable roller; a pressurebar slidably supported by the frame and disposed above the beam, saidbar and beam having adjacent converging faces extending from their endsand terminating` near the centers thereof a resilient block disposedbetween the center portions of the adjacent faces of said bar and beam;pairs of recesses being formed along the converging faces of saidmembers, resilient balls, one disposed in any pair of recesses at eachend of the beam and bar; a cross beam forming a part of the frame; anadjusting screw carried at the center of said cross beam and adapted toexert pressure upon the bar; and a plurality of yieldable membersinterposed between the cross members of the frame and the bar foryieldably maintaining the same in position in. the frame.

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